We're in the process of creating our first published course using Storyline 1 (will update to Storyline 2 when we get past this first deadline) and I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of some settings or tricks that would prevent a user from saving or downloading a document that has been uploaded? Essentially we have some material that we want them to have access to but not have the ability to save and share with others.
Can you be more specific about what you're trying to do. If you are attaching or linking to a document like a PDF that you want the user to open and view then I don't know of any way you can prevent them from saving it. You can set security to PDFs to prevent copying, printing, modifying, etc. but I don't think you can prevent someone from saving them.
If the document you want to attach isn't too long I suppose you could create images of each page and build them into your course content. This might make a really large file if you have a lot of pages of images.
If you can remake the content of your document into text and images that SL can work with you could build it into your course as a separate scene that users could toggle to to read as a reference.
Essentially we want to give our users access to an 'ebook' as a resource which at this stage is only in PDF format. The author is concerned about giving away access without royalties and PDF's are very easy to replicate and send on. So we were looking at ways to either prevent the users from saving the PDF (ie. only able to read it online) or we will have to go down the path of publishing it as an ebook and accessing it that way somehow.
Thanks Brett. Yes I think that will be the best option, we were just trying to avoid having to go through the hassle of publishing it as an ebook if we didn't have to.
You could obtain pdf2swf and convert your pdf's to swf and embed them within your course but I guess that depends on what kind of devices your viewers will be using, anyways it is a thought that would work for viewers using pc's, macs etc
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Hi Cindy,
Can you be more specific about what you're trying to do. If you are attaching or linking to a document like a PDF that you want the user to open and view then I don't know of any way you can prevent them from saving it. You can set security to PDFs to prevent copying, printing, modifying, etc. but I don't think you can prevent someone from saving them.
If the document you want to attach isn't too long I suppose you could create images of each page and build them into your course content. This might make a really large file if you have a lot of pages of images.
If you can remake the content of your document into text and images that SL can work with you could build it into your course as a separate scene that users could toggle to to read as a reference.
Thanks Brett!
Essentially we want to give our users access to an 'ebook' as a resource which at this stage is only in PDF format. The author is concerned about giving away access without royalties and PDF's are very easy to replicate and send on. So we were looking at ways to either prevent the users from saving the PDF (ie. only able to read it online) or we will have to go down the path of publishing it as an ebook and accessing it that way somehow.
Any other thoughts would be great!
Cheers, Cindy
Hi Cindy
can you have the eBook on your intranet somewhere and do a jump to file/url trigger that opens the web page and they read it on there?
Thanks Brett. Yes I think that will be the best option, we were just trying to avoid having to go through the hassle of publishing it as an ebook if we didn't have to.
Thanks for your help!
Cheers, Cindy
You could obtain pdf2swf and convert your pdf's to swf and embed them within your course but I guess that depends on what kind of devices your viewers will be using, anyways it is a thought that would work for viewers using pc's, macs etc
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